[Scons-users] installing scons via `pip install scons` doesn't work.

[Stefan Seefeld]

On 28.08.2016 20:20, Bill Deegan wrote:
> Seems that pip inside a virtualenv works.
> But not outside.
> I think that's the current situation.

Any idea what the cause of the issue is ? Where is that
"--single-version-externally-managed" option coming from ?

> Also any way to tell what version of pip is being run?

I don't know about the travis environment (which runs trusty), but I can
reproduce the issue locally, with python 2.7 & pip 8.1.2.

        Stefan

>
> -Bill
>
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Stefan Seefeld <stefan at seefeld.name
> <mailto:stefan at seefeld.name>> wrote:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I'm trying to install scons via `pip install scons`, and get the
>     following cryptic error:
>
>
>     $ pip install scons
>     Collecting scons
>       Using cached scons-2.5.0.tar.gz
>     Installing collected packages: scons
>       Running setup.py install for scons ... error
>         Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import
>     setuptools,
>     tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-UnhHp6/scons/setup.py';exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
>     'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__,
>     'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zIuAOx-record/install-record.txt
>     --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
>         usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>            or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>            or: -c --help-commands
>            or: -c cmd --help
>
>         error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized
>
>
>     Any idea what is causing this, and how to fix it ?
>
>     Thanks,
>
>             Stefan
>
>     PS: I'm actually trying to upgrade to a newer version of scons in a
>     travis-ci environment (the default version is 2.3.0 - too old for
>     me as
>     it doesn't support clang), and so I hoped that `pip` would be able to
>     help...
>
>
>
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